Manicure tools



1957 M. E. FLEMING 2,8l1,16l

MANICURE TOOLS Filed June 13. 1955 ATTORNEY United States Patent MANICURE TOOLS Margaret Ellen Fleming, Niagara Falls, N. Y., assignor to John Stuart Fleming, Niagara Falls, N. Y.

Application June 13, 1955, Serial No. 514,980

4 Claims. (Cl. 132-76.4)

l The 'invention relates to manicure tools and particularly to cuticle pushers and finger nail cleaners, this application being related to the application resulting in Patent No. 2,7ll,747 for Manicure Tool, dated June 28, 1955, Patent No. 2,7l0,6l3, for Finger Nail Cleaner, dated June 10, 1955, and the application Serial Number 474,902, filed December 13, 1954, allowed June 23, 1955, for combined Cuticle Pusher and Finger Nail Cleaner, now Patent No. 2,738,794, an object of the invention being to provide an improved tool of this description the particular objects and advantages of which will appear hereinafter or will be obvious.

The invention consists in the novel Construction and combinations of parts as hereinafter set forth in the clams.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a side view of the manicure tool;

Figura 2 is a perspective View of the same on an enlarged scale;

Figure 3 is a plan view of the two blanks for making the tool;

Figure 4 is a plan view of a single blank for making the tool; i

Figure 5 is a fragmentary front view of the tool showing the lower set of tongues spaced apart as in use to form a Scoop;

Figure 6 is a plan view of a fragment of the paper showing the soft edge on a much enlarged scale;

Figure 6a is a section on the line 6a-6a, Fig. 6;

Figure 7 is a section on the line 7-7, Fig. 1, on a much enlarged scale;

Fgure 8 is a section on the line 8-8, Fig. 1, on a much enlarged scale; and

Figure 9 is a cross section of the tool on a much enlarged scale showing the central longitudinal crease.

Referring to the drawings, the tool is composed of a plurality of superposed identical layers 1 of thin flexible paper having opposite spaced longitudinal edges 2, 2', the forward end portions of said layers consisting of an upper set of superposed tongues 3 having rounded forward edges 3' for cuticle pushing and a lower set of superposed tongues 4 having straight oblque forward edges 4' intersecting the lower longitudinal edges 2 in points 6 for finger nail cleaning, paper folds 7 connecting said layers 1 together and extending along said lower longitudinal edges 2 to said points 6, the tongues of each set having their adjacent surfaces free of connection with one another.

A single tongue 3 or 4 of thin flexible paper is too yieldable from its forward end backwardly thereof to form a cuticle pusher or a finger nail cleaner and too yieldable to be cushioned, being adapted to bear only a part of the manicure load, the plural tongues 3 or 4 being collectively less yieldable and adapted to bear the entire load, which is distributed among the plural tongues so that they are collectively self-cushioned.

The tongues of each set are flexible transversely of the `'shown in Fig. 5, for scooping up dirt from between the forward edge of thefinger nail and the adjacent cuticle. The forward edge 3" of the lowermost tongue of the upper set is adapted to act as ascraping edge, being'capable of getting under the cuticle while the tongues collectively push 'the cuticle rearwa'rdly. e 'The outermost tongues of the lower set are capable of getting under the dirt between theforward-edge of the finger nail and the adjacent cuticle while the tongues collectively scoopupthe di't.

In order to remove any remaining ditt from betwen the forward edge of the finger nail and the adjacent cuticle after the tool has been used as a finger nail Cleaner, and to remove any dirt from between the rear and the lateral edges of the finger nail and the adjacent cuticle after the tool has been used as a cuticle pusher, the upper longitudinal edges 2' and the rear converging edges 2." of said layers are each a soft self-cushioned edge resulting from tearing the related layer from and along a weakened tear line of a sheet of said paper, said soft edge being beveled upon one side thereof at 10, the plural soft edges 2' and the plural soft edges 2" having collectively a brushing action during a back and forth movement thereof for removing said ditt.

As shown in Fig. 3, the tool may be made from a plurality of identical blanks, each of which has two identical subdivisions 11, each blank being folded along line 7' centrally thereof to superpose one of its subdivisions as a layer upon the other, to locate the tongues and their soft edges adjacent one another and to provide the paper folds 7, the folded blanks being interfitted to provide a multiple fold tool, adhesve means 12 being used to connect the interfitted folded blanks together inwardly of said tongues and said soft edges. Or alternatively the tool may be made from a single blank, as shown in Fig.

4, having two identical subdivisions 11, said blank being' folded at 7 to superpose one of its subdivisions as a layer upon the other, to locate said tongues and their soft edges adjacent one another and to provide the paper fold 7. Adhesive means 12 may be used to connect the folded blanks together.

The forward edges 3' of the upper set of tongues may be slightly beveled, as shown in Fig. 8, so that they shall slightly recede from the lowermost tongue upwardly, without detracting from the collective self cushioning of said tongues. The tool may be centrally longitudinally creased at 14, as shown in Fig. 9, to stifien it and aid in holding it in form, inasmuch as it is necessarily quite thin. The paper material of which the tool is stated to be composed may be substituted by any other equivalent material. The right is reserved to modificatons coming within the scope of the clams.

I claim:

l. A manicure tool, consisting of a plurality of superposed identical layers of thin flexible paper having opposite spaced longitudinal edges, the forward end portions of said layers consisting of an upper set of superposed tongues having rounded forward edges for cuticle pushing and a lower set of superposed tongues having straight forward edges intersectng the lower longitudinal edges of said layers in points for finger nail cleaning, and paper fold means for connecting said layers together extending along the lower longitudinal edges of said layers to said points, the tongues of each set having their adjacent surfaces free of connection with one another; characterized in that the upper longitudinal :from between the forward edge of'the finger nail and the adjacent cuticle after the tool has been used as a finger nail cleaner and for removing any dirt from between the rear and the lateral edges of the finger nail and the adjacent cutcle after the tool has been used as a cuticle pushcr.

2. A manicure tool as defined in claim 1, in which said layers have rear converging edges each of which is a soft self-cushioned edge beveled upon one side thereof, the plural rear convergng soft edges of said layers being capable of collective brushing action for removing said dirt. i

3; A'manicure tool consisting of a plurality of superposed identicai layers of thin flexible paper having spaced upper and lower longitudinal edges, and paper fold means for connectng said layers together extending along the lower longitndnal edges of said layers, the upper longitudinal edges of said layers being each a soft selfcushioned edge beveled upon one side thereof, the plural upper longitudnal soft edges being capable of collective brushing action for removing dirt from between the edges of the finger nail and the adjacent cuticle.

4. A manicure tool as defined in claim 3, in which said layers have rear converging edges each of which is a soft seif-cushioned edge beveled upon one side thereof, the plural rear converging soft edges being capable of collective brushing action for removing said dirt.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,710,613 Fleming June 14, 1955 2,711,746 Fleming June 28, 1955 2,71'1,747 Fleming June 28, 1955 

